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1848 - 1st ship load of Chinese arrive in SF.

1880 - SS Strathleven arrives in London with 1st Australian frozen mutton.

1894 - US warship Kearsarge wrecked on Roncador Reef, near Solomon Island.

2012 - MV Rabaul Queen sinks off the coast of Papa New Guinea with 246 people saved and 126 missing (100 of these estimated to be trapped inside).

1804 - British vice-admiral William Blighs fleet reaches Curacao.

1917 - Germany notifies US that U-boats will attack neutral merchant ship
1918 - A series of accidental collisions on a misty Scottish night leads to the loss of two Royal Navy submarines with over a hundred lives, and damage to another five British warships

1953 - "Princess Victoria" capsized off Stanraer Scotland; 133 die.

1774 - Capt Cook reaches 71°10' south, 1820km from south pole.

1790 - Mr Greathead, the inventor of the first Lifeboat, carries out 1st test at sea.

1862 - Launching of first turreted warship, USS Monitor.
1895 - SS Elbe sinks after collision in North Sea, 332 killed.

1945 - "Wilhelm Gustloff" torpedoed off Danzig by Soviet sub-c 9,400 die.

1574 - Sea battle of Reimerswaal - Admiral Boisot beats Spanish fleet.

1943 - New Zealand cruiser Kiwi collides with Japanese submarine I-1 at Guadalcanal.

1944 - USS Missouri, the last battleship commissioned by the US Navy, is launched.

You got her Doreltomin. Well done.

Here's the next one for you.

Sorry Jan, I've been too buzzy to play. Is it the S. S. Merapi?

USS North Carolina, 74 gun ship of the line, launched Sep 1820. It's a picture of an oil painting on wood in the collection of the Insurance Co. of North America and was used in their 1950 Ad.

1604 - Admiral Steven van der Haghen's fleet reaches Bantam.

1941 - Admiral Chester W. Nimitz assumes command of U.S. Pacific Fleet.
1942 - Commissioning of USS Essex (CV-9), first of new class of aircraft carriers, at Norfolk, VA.

1835 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin sails from NZ to Sydney.

1959 - Commissioning of first fleet ballistic missile submarine, USS George Washington (SSB(N)-598), at Groton, CT.

1837 - Canadian militia destroy Caroline, a US steamboat docked at Buffalo.

1860 - The first British seagoing iron-clad warship, HMS Warrior is launched.

1943 - USS Silversides (SS-236) sinks three Japanese ships and damages a fourth off Palau.

1492 - Columbus' ship Santa Maria runs aground and sinks on Hispaniola.

1643 - Christmas Island founded and named by Captain William Mynors of the East India Ship Company vessel, the Royal Mary.

1941 - Admiral Chester W. Nimitz arrives at Pearl Harbor to assume command of U.S. Pacific Fleet.

1777 - Kiritimati, also called Christmas Island, is discovered by James Cook.

1832 - HMS Beagle anchors in Wigwam Bay at Cape Receiver.

1941 - 1st ships of admiral Nagumo's Pearl Harbor fleet return to Japan.

1775 - Continental navy organized with 7 ships.
1832 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Barnevelts Islands.

1841 - Commissioning of USS Mississippi, first U.S. ocean-going side-wheel steam warship, at Philadelphia.

You found her Menno. Well done.

Your turn.

Not the Norrskar but close.

Time for some clues, I think.

She was built in Sweden in 1909 and was the first of many to carry the name.

Good Luck

50/50 and I chose the wrong one :mellow:

Next from me

Is it the HNLMS Flores?

1600 - Olivier van Noort sinks Spanish galleon San Diego at Bay of Manila, 350 die.

1941 - Premier Winston Churchill travels to US on board HMS Duke of York.

1941 - U-557 torpedoes British cruiser Galatea.

1577 - Sir Francis Drake sets sail from England to go around world.

1642 - New Zealand discovered by Dutch navigator Abel Tasman.

1775 - Continental Congress provides for the construction of 5 ships of 32 guns, 5 ships of 28 guns, and 3 ships of 24 guns.

1816 - Patent for a dry dock issued to John Adamson, Boston.

1833 - HMS Beagle arrives in Port Deseado, Patagonia.

1939 - Battle of the River Plate - 3 British cruisers vs German pocket battleship Graf Spee.

1941 - U-81 torpedoes British aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal.

1944 - Japanese kamikaze crashes into US cruiser Nashville, kills 138.

1937 - Japanese aircraft shell & sink US gunboat Panay on Yangtze River in China. (Japan apologized & eventually paid US $2.2M in reparations)

1620 - 103 Mayflower pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock.

1888 - French Panama Canal Company fails.
1893 - 11 fishing ships wash up at Wadden Sea, 22 killed.

1954 - First supercarrier of 59,630 tons, USS Forrestal (CVA-59), launched at Newport News, VA.

1652 - Sea battle at Dungeness. Admiral Maarten Tromp beats English fleet.

1941 - Battleship HMS Prince of Wales sinks off Singapore.
1941 - Aircraft from USS Enterprise attack and sink Japanese Submarine I-70 north of Hawaiian Islands. A participant in the Pearl Harbor Attack, I-70 is the first Japanese combatant ship sunk during World War II.
1979 - First Poseidon submarine configured with Trident missiles, USS Francis Scott Key (SSBN-657) completes initial deterrent patrol.
1982 - USS Ohio (SSBN-726), first Trident-Class submarine, returns from first deterrent patrol.

1938 - Prototype shipboard radar, designed and built by the Naval Research Laboratory, is installed on USS New York (BB-34).
1941 - USS Swordfish (SS-193) makes initial U.S. submarine attack on Japanese ship.